shapeshifting
shapeshifting
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Shapeshifting
In traditional mythology and folklore, and in modern fantasy fiction, shapeshifting is the ability of a being to physically transform into another form or being, either as an inherent faculty of a mythological creature, or by means of magic. The concept is of great antiquity, and may indeed be a human cultural universal, present in the oldest forms of totemism or shamanism, it is present in the oldest extant literature and epic poems, where the shape-shifting is usually induced by the act of a deity; it persisted into the literature of the Middle Ages and the modern period, and it remains a common trope in modern fantasy, children's literature and works of pop culture. By far the most common form of shape-shifting is therianthropy, the transformation of a human being into an animal. More rarely, the transformation may be into a plant or object, or into another human form.
Shapeshifting
In mythology, folklore and speculative fiction, shape-shifting is the ability to physically transform oneself through an inherently superhuman ability, divine intervention, demonic manipulation, sorcery, spells or having inherited the ability. The idea of shape-shifting is in the oldest forms of totemism and shamanism, as well as the oldest existent literature and epic poems such as the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Iliad. The concept remains a common literary device in modern fantasy, children's literature and popular culture.
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